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Caledonia, Arkansas

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 71730. It stands on Polly Branch. The Survey maps it on the Junction City quadrangle.

Caledonia within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

83 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Caledonia between 1998 and 2020, burning about 538 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2015Debris and open burning25 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use10 acresArkansas Forestry CommissionUNI15767649
26 September 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2011Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use12 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresArkansas Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Caledonia: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Bromine. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Michigan Bromine Plant & MineBromineProducer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caledonia in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2010Thunderstorm WindCaledonia$5,000Numerous trees were downed along East Stateline Road near Iron Mountain Road east of Junction City, Arkansas. A portion of a roof was removed from a home on Lyons Lane.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindCaledonia-Trees down on Caledonia Road northeast of Junction City.
April 2009HailCaledonia-Hail fell northeast of Junction City along U.S. Hwy. 167.

Every storm recorded in Union County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
New Caledonia0.7 miles18
Blanchard Springs2.1 miles18
Catesville3.4 miles18
Cornie3.9 miles18
Junction City4.6 miles18
Lamberton4.8 miles18
Scotland5.1 miles18
Smith5.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 57490. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.